altheas

The additional trees and shrubs in flower are the tamarisk, altheas, Venetian sumach, pomegranates, the beautiful passion-flower, the trumpet flower, and the virgin's bower or clematis, which is such a quick and handsome climber.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827 Various

The Captain looked in, too, through the dusky clumps of altheas and plum-trees, at the old stone house, dyed tawny-gray in the evening light, and talked on, the words falling unconscious and simple as a stream of milk.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

Pitiful attempts at gardening lined the gravel entrance, periwinkle dried up in the blazing Western sun, sickly scented geraniums that shrivelled to the night frost, altheas that did better but refused to bloom.

The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

A tall iron railing, with an ornamental gate, encloses a front yard in which are some forlorn-looking shrubs, a rosebush or two, and a couple of scraggy altheas.

We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses Barbara Yechton 1901

_altheas_, and other malvaceous plants that shared the ground with the palmettos.

The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

a few stunted altheas grew out of the hard ground.

Diary, August 8, 1859-May 15, 1865. 1863

"weed-prairie" -- that is, instead of having a grassy turf, its surface was covered in a thick growth of flowering-plants, as _helianthus, malvas, altheas, hibiscus_, and other tall annuals standing side by side, and frequently laced together by wild-pea vines and various species of convolvulus.

The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850